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Part I: Getting Started in Fedora and RHEL
Chapter 1: An Overview of Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Introducing Fedora 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
What Is Linux? 5
Linux’s Roots in UNIX 6
What Is an Operating System? 7
Common Linux Features 8
Primary Advantages of Linux 10
What Are Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora? 11
Red Hat forms the Fedora Project 11
Red Hat shifts to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 14
Choosing between Fedora and Enterprise 14
Why Choose Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux? 15
New Features in Fedora 10 17
Better Printing 17
FirstAidKit 18
OpenOffice.org 3 18
Faster Boot Times 18
K Desktop Environment (KDE) 4 18
PackageKit Software Management 18
Firefox 3 Web browser 19
Preupgrade 19
Ext4 file systems 19
Encrypted file systems 19
Identity management with freeIPA 19
NetworkManager 20
Getting custom Fedora spins 20
Creating your own spins 21
Firewall Configuration 21
The Culture of Free Software 21
Summary 22
Chapter 2: Installing Fedora 23
Understanding Fedora Installation Media 24
Using the Fedora 10 Live CD 24
Quick Installation 26
Detailed Installation Instructions 28
Installing Fedora 10 28
Choosing an installation method 29
Install or upgrade? 29
From DVD, network, or hard disk? 31
Choosing computer hardware 32
Installing Fedora on a Laptop 33
Preparing for installation using the live CD 34
Display hardware information 34
Test your hardware 36
Beginning the installation 37
Choosing Different Install Modes 39
Running Fedora Firstboot 44
Enabling Authentication 45
Going forward after installation 46
Special Installation Procedures 47
Alternatives for starting installation 47
Booting installation from hard disk 47
Booting installation from a USB device 49
Booting installation using PXE 49
Installing from other media 50
Beginning installation 50
Setting up an HTTP, FTP, or NFS install server 51
Starting a VNC install 53
Performing a kickstart installation 54
Creating the kickstart file 54
Installing the kickstart file 59
Booting a kickstart installation 59
Special Installation Topics 60
Setting up to dual-boot Linux and Windows 60
Resizing your Windows partitions 60
Using Windows partitions from Linux 64
Partitioning your disks 66
Partitioning with Disk Setup during installation 67
Partitioning with fdisk 70
Tips for creating partitions 72
Using the GRUB boot loader 74
Temporarily changing boot options 75
Permanently changing boot options 77
Adding a new GRUB boot image 78
Troubleshooting Installation 79
Spinning Your Own Fedora Install or Live Media 81
Summary 82
Chapter 3: Getting Started with the Desktop 83
Logging in to Fedora or RHEL 84
Why Do I Need a User Login? 86
Getting Familiar with the Desktop 86
Touring your desktop 87
Tips for configuring your desktop 94
Using the GNOME Desktop 95
Using the Metacity window manager 97
Using the GNOME panels 99
Use the Applications and System menus 100
Adding an applet 101
Adding another panel 102
Adding an application launcher 102
Adding a drawer 103
Changing panel properties 103
Using the Nautilus file manager 104
Changing GNOME preferences 107
Managing removable media 108
Trying other GNOME applications 109
Taking notes with Tomboy 109
Checking Your Network from GNOME 110
Switching to another user 110
Exiting GNOME 111
Setting Up an Online Desktop 112
Switching Desktop Environments 115
Using the KDE Desktop 116
New Features in KDE 4.1 116
Starting with KDE 117
KDE desktop basics 118
Getting around the desktop 119
Managing files with Dolphin and Konqueror File Managers 120
Working with files 122
Searching for files with Dolphin and kfind 123
Creating new files and folders 124
Using the Konqueror browser features 125
Configuring Konqueror and Dolphin options 126
Managing windows 128
Using the taskbar 129
Moving windows 129
Resizing windows 129
Pinning windows on top or bottom 130
Using virtual desktops 130
Configuring the desktop 130
Adding widgets 131
Adding widgets to the panel 132
Adding widgets to the desktop 132
Running 3D Accelerated Desktop Effects 132
Using the Xfce Desktop Environment 135
Troubleshooting Your Desktop 136
GUI doesn’t work at start-up 137
What Happens During Desktop Startup? 137
Tuning your video card and monitor 138
Running the Display Settings window 138
Understanding the xorg.conf file 139
Configuring video cards for gaming 140
Getting more information 140
Summary 141
Chapter 4: Using Linux Commands 143
The Shell Interface 143
Checking your login session 144
Checking directories and permissions 145
Checking system activity 147
Exiting the shell 148
Understanding the Shell 148
Using the Shell in Linux 149
Locating commands 150
Getting Help with Using the Shell 151
Rerunning commands 153
Command-line editing 153
Command-line completion 155
Command-line recall 156
Connecting and expanding commands 158
Piping commands 158
Sequential commands 159
Background commands 159
Expanding commands 159
Expanding arithmetic expressions 160
Expanding variables 160
Using shell environment variables 160
Common shell environment variables 161
Setting your own environment variables 162
Managing background and foreground processes 164
Starting background processes 164
Moving commands to the foreground and background 165
Configuring your shell 166
Setting your prompt 167
Adding environment variables 168
Adding aliases 169
Working with the Linux File System 169
Linux File Systems Versus Windows-Based File Systems 171
Creating files and directories 172
Identifying Directories 173
Using metacharacters and operators 173
Using file-matching metacharacters 173
Using file-redirection metacharacters 175
Understanding file permissions 175
Moving, copying, and deleting files 177
Using the vi Text Editor 178
Starting with vi 178
Exploring Other Text Editors 179
Moving around the file 181
Searching for text 182
Using numbers with commands 183
Summary 183
Part II: Using Fedora and RHEL
Chapter 5: Accessing and Running Applications 187
Getting and Installing Software Packages 188
Downloading and installing applications with yum 190
Configuring yum (/etc/yum.conf) 191
Adding yum repositories (/etc/yum.repos.d/) 192
Running yum to download and install RPMs 194
Using yum to install packages locally 195
Using yum for listing packages 196
Using yum-utils package 197
Getting Fedora and RHEL software updates 197
Getting alerted to available updates 198
Getting manual updates with yum 198
Managing RPM Packages 199
Using the PackageKit Add/Remove window 199
Using the rpm command 200
Verifying rpm package integrity 201
Installing with rpm 202
Upgrading packages with rpm 205
Freshening packages with rpm 205
Removing packages with rpm 206
Querying packages with rpm 207
Verifying installed packages with rpm 210
Using Software in Different Formats 211
Understanding software package names and formats 211
Using Binary RPMs versus Building from Source 212
Using different archive and document formats 213
Building and installing from source code 215
Installing software in SRPM format 216
Installing software in tar.gz or tar.bz2 formats 216
Using Fedora or RHEL to Run Applications 218
Finding common desktop applications in Linux 219
Investigating your desktop 221
Starting applications from a menu 222
Starting applications from a Run Application window 222
Starting applications from a Terminal window 223
Running remote X applications 225
Traditional method to run remote X applications 225
Launching a remote X application 226
Using SSH to run remote X applications 228
Running Microsoft Windows, DOS, and Macintosh Applications 229
Running DOS applications 231
Using mtools 231
Using DOSBox 233
Running Microsoft Windows applications in Linux 233
Running Windows Applications in WINE 235
Assigning drive letters 236
Installing applications in WINE 237
Launching applications 237
Tuning and configuring WINE 237
Finding more Windows applications for WINE 238
Running Applications in Virtual Environments 239
Running applications virtually with Xen 239
Before installing Xen 240
Installing Xen 240
Installing a guest operating system 241
Running applications virtually with KVM and QEMU 244
Summary 245
Chapter 6: Publishing with Fedora and RHEL 247
Desktop Publishing in Linux 248
Using Text Editors and Notepads 248
Using Word Processors 248
Using OpenOffice.org 249
Other Word Processors 252
Using Traditional Linux Publishing Tools 255
Creating Documents in Groff or LaTeX 256
Text processing with Groff 256
Formatting and printing documents with Groff 257
Creating a man page with Groff 258
Text processing with TeX/LaTeX 259
Creating and formatting a LaTeX document 260
Converting documents 261
Creating DocBook documents 263
Understanding SGML and XML 263
Understanding DocBook 263
Creating DocBook documents 264
Converting DocBook documents 266
Displaying PDF Files with Adobe Acrobat Reader 266
Doing Page Layout with Scribus 268
Working with Graphics 270
Manipulating images with GIMP 270
Taking screen captures 271
Creating vector graphic images with Inkscape 272
Using Scanners Driven by SANE 274
Web Publishing 275
Summary 276
Chapter 7: Gaming in Fedora and RHEL 277
Jumping into Linux Gaming 278
Basic Linux Gaming Information 280
Where to get information on Linux gaming 280
Choosing a video card for gaming 281
Running Open Source Linux Games 283
GNOME games 284
KDE games 284
Adding more games from Fedora repository 286
Chess games 289
Freeciv 290
Extreme Tuxracer 295
Commercial Linux Games 296
Getting Started with commercial games in Linux 297
Playing commercial Linux games 297
id Software Games 298
Quake III Arena 298
Return to Castle Wolfenstein 299
Gaming with Cedega 300
Loki Software game demos 302
Civilization: Call to Power 303
Myth II: Soulblighter 304
Heretic II 305
Neverwinter Nights 305
Summary 305
Chapter 8: Music, Video, and Images in Linux 307
Understanding Multimedia and Legal Issues in Linux 307
Extending Freedom to Codecs 308
Listening to Music in Linux 309
Configuring a sound card 311
Sound card features 311
Detecting your sound card driver 313
Adjusting sound levels 314
Setting your sound card to record 317
Choosing audio players 317
Automatically playing CDs 318
Troubleshooting Your CD-ROM 319
Playing and managing music with Rhythmbox 319
Playing music with XMMS Audio Player 322
Using the Equalizer 324
Using the Playlist Editor 325
Using ogg123, mpg321, and play command-line players 326
Using MIDI audio players 326
Converting audio files with SoX 327
Extracting and encoding music 329
Extracting music CDs with Sound Juicer 330
Extracting and encoding music CDs from commands 331
Creating your own music CDs 332
Creating audio CDs with cdrecord 332
Creating audio and data CDs with K3b 333
Creating CD labels with cdlabelgen 336
Viewing TV and Webcams 337
Watching TV with TVtime 337
Getting a supported TV card 337
Starting Tvtime 339
Selecting channels in TVtime 339
Video conferencing and VOIP with Ekiga 340
Getting a supported Webcam 340
Running Ekiga 342
Taking Webcam videos and snapshots with Cheese 343
Playing Video 344
Examining laws affecting video and Linux 345
Understanding video content types 346
Converting Video to Theora 347
Watching video with Xine 347
Using Xine 349
Creating playlists with Xine 350
Xine tips 350
Using Totem movie player 352
Using a Digital Camera 353
Displaying images in gThumb 353
Using your camera as a storage device 355
Summary 356
Chapter 9: Using the Internet and the Web 357
Overview of Internet Applications and Commands 357
Browsing the Web 360
Understanding Web browsing 361
Uniform Resource Locators 361
Web pages 363
Browsing the Web with Firefox 365
Setting up Firefox 369
Setting Navigator preferences 369
Extending Firefox 371
Changing Firefox themes 375
Securing Firefox 375
Tips for using Firefox 376
Using text-based Web browsers 377
Communicating with E-mail 378
E-mail basics 380
Using Evolution e-mail 381
Setting Evolution preferences 382
Receiving, composing, and sending e-mail 383
Thunderbird mail client 384
Text-based mail programs 385
Mail readers and managers 386
Mutt mail reader 386
Pine mail reader 386
Mail reader 387
Participating in Newsgroups 387
Instant Messaging with Pidgin 388
Sharing Files with BitTorrent 389
Using Remote Login, Copy, and Execution 390
Using telnet for remote login 391
Copying files with FTP 392
Using the ftp command 392
Using the ncftp command 395
Using the gFTP window 397
Getting files with wget 399
Downloading a single file 399
Downloading a file with user name and password 400
Downloading a whole Web site 400
Continuing a download 401
Using ssh for remote login/remote execution 402
Using scp for remote file copy 402
Using the “r” commands: rlogin, rcp, and rsh 403
Summary 403
Part III: Administering Fedora and RHEL
Chapter 10: Understanding System Administration 407
Using the root user account 408
Becoming Super User (The su Command) 408
Learning about Administrative GUI Tools, Commands, Configuration Files, and Log Files . 410
Using graphical administration tools 410
Becoming Super User in X 411
Administrative commands 415
Administrative configuration files 416
Administrative log files 420
Using other administrative logins 420
Understanding administrative logins 421
Using sudo for assigning administrative privilege 421
Administering Your Linux System 423
Configuring Hardware 423
Checking your hardware 424
Managing Hardware with HAL 424
Reconfiguring hardware with kudzu 425
Configuring modules 426
Listing loaded modules 427
Loading modules 428
Removing modules 428
Managing File Systems and Disk Space 429
Mounting file systems 432
Supported file systems 432
Using the fstab file to define mountable file systems 435
Using the mount command to mount file systems 437
Using the umount command to unmount a file system 439
Using the mkfs command to create a file system 440
Adding a hard disk 441
Using RAID disks 443
Checking system space 446
Checking Disk Space with Disk Usage Analyzer 446
Displaying system space with df 446
Checking disk usage with du 447
Finding disk consumption with find 448
Monitoring System Performance 448
Watch computer usage with System Monitor 448
Monitoring CPU usage with top 450
Monitoring power usage on laptop computers 450
Using the Power Manager applet 451
Using apm to enter suspend mode 452
Using acpi_listen to monitor ACPI events 452
Fixing Your System with the FirstAidKit 453
Choosing Software Alternatives 453
Selecting Java alternatives 453
Selecting mail and printing alternatives 454
Using mail alternatives 455
Using Security Enhanced Linux 455
Understanding Security Enhanced Linux 456
Types and roles in SELinux 456
Users in SELinux 457
Policies in SELinux 457
Tools in SELinux 458
Using SELinux in Fedora and RHEL 458
Getting SELinux 459
Checking whether SELinux is on 459
Checking SELinux status 460
Learning More about SELinux 462
Summary 462
Chapter 11: Setting Up and Supporting Users 463
Creating User Accounts 463
Adding users with useradd 464
Adding users with User Manager 468
Setting User Defaults 471
Supplying initial login scripts 473
Supplying initial .bashrc and .bash_profile files 474
Supplying an initial .tcshrc file 475
Configuring system-wide shell options 475
Configuring system-wide bash options 475
Configuring system-wide tcsh options 476
Setting system profiles 476
Adding user accounts to servers 477
Creating Portable Desktops 478
Providing Support to Users 479
Creating a technical support mailbox 480
Resetting a user’s password 480
Modifying Accounts 481
Modifying user accounts with usermod 481
Modifying user accounts with User Manager 483
Deleting User Accounts 484
Deleting user accounts with userdel 484
Deleting user accounts with User Manager 486
Checking Disk Quotas 486
Using quota to check disk usage 486
Editing the /etc/fstab file 487
Creating quota files 487
Creating a quota startup script 488
Turn on the quota startup script 489
Creating quota rules 489
Updating quota settings 490
Checking quotas 490
Using du to check disk use 491
Removing temp files automatically 491
Sending Mail to All Users 492
Summary 493
Chapter 12: Automating System Tasks 495
Understanding Shell Scripts 495
Executing and debugging shell scripts 496
Understanding shell variables 497
Special shell variables 498
Parameter expansion in bash 498
Performing arithmetic in shell scripts 500
Using programming constructs in shell scripts 500
The “if…then” statements 500
The case command 503
The “for .do” loop 504
The “while .do” and “until .do” loops 505
Some useful external programs 506
The general regular expression parser (grep) 506
Remove sections of lines of text (cut) 506
Translate or delete characters (tr) 506
The Stream Editor (sed) 507
Trying some simple shell scripts 507
A simple telephone list 508
A simple backup script 509
System Initialization 509
Starting init 510
The inittab file 510
System Startup and Shutdown 514
Starting run-level scripts 515
Understanding run-level scripts 515
Understanding what startup scripts do 518
Changing run-level script behavior 520
Reorganizing or removing run-level scripts 521
Adding run-level scripts 523
Managing xinetd services 524
Manipulating run levels 525
Determining the current run level 525
Changing to a shutdown run level 526
Scheduling System Tasks 526
Using at.allow and at.deny 526
Specifying when jobs are run 526
Submitting scheduled jobs 527
Viewing scheduled jobs 528
Deleting scheduled jobs 528
Using the batch command 529
Using the cron facility 529
Modifying scheduled tasks with crontab 531
Understanding cron files 532
Summary 533
Chapter 13: Backing Up and Restoring Files 535
Making a Simple Backup Archive 536
Doing a Simple Backup with rsync 537
Backing up files locally 538
Backing up files remotely 539
Choosing Backup Tools 540
Selecting a Backup Strategy 541
Full backup 541
Incremental backup 541
Disk mirroring 541
Network backup 542
Selecting a Backup Medium 542
Magnetic tape 543
Using ftape tools for magnetic tape 544
Testing the magnetic tape drive 545
Writable CD drives 545
Getting cdrecord for writable CDs 545
Writing to CDs 545
Writable DVD drives 549
Writing CD or DVDs with growisofs 551
Backing Up to a Hard Drive 551
Backing Up Files with dump 552
Creating a backup with dump 553
Understanding dump levels 555
Automating Backups with cron 556
Restoring Backed-Up Files 558
Restoring an entire file system 559
Recovering individual files 560
Configuring Amanda for Network Backups 562
Creating Amanda directories 563
Creating the amanda.conf file 564
Creating a disklist file 566
Adding Amanda network services 566
On the amanda server 567
On each amanda client 567
Performing an Amanda backup 567
Using the pax Archiving Tool 568
Summary 571
Chapter 14: Computer Security Issues 573
Linux Security Checklist 573
Using Password Protection 576
Choosing good passwords 577
Using a shadow password file 577
Breaking encrypted passwords 578
Checking for the shadow password file 578
Securing Linux with iptables Firewalls 580
Using the Firewall Configuration window 580
Configuring an iptables firewall 582
Turning on iptables 582
Creating iptables firewall rules 584
Understanding iptables 590
Enhancing your iptables firewall 593
Controlling Access to Services with TCP Wrappers 594
Checking Log Files 597
Understanding the rsyslogd service 597
Redirecting logs to a loghost with rsyslogd 597
Understanding the messages logfile 600
Tracking log messages with logwatch 601
Using the Secure Shell Package 602
Starting the SSH service 602
Using the ssh, sftp, and scp commands 603
Using ssh, scp, and sftp without passwords 604
Securing Linux Servers 606
Understanding attack techniques 606
Protecting against denial-of-service attacks 607
Mailbombing 607
Spam relaying 609
Smurf amplification attack 609
Protecting against distributed DOS attacks 610
Protecting against intrusion attacks 614
Evaluating access to network services 615
Disabling network services 616
Securing servers with SELinux 617
Protecting Web servers with certificates and encryption 618
Symmetric cryptography 618
Public-key cryptography 619
Secure Sockets Layer 619
Exporting Encryption Technology 627
Managing Identities with freeIPA 627
Setting up the freeIPA Server 628
Setting up freeIPA Clients 629
Summary 629
Part IV: Fedora and RHEL Network and Server Setup
Chapter 15: Setting Up a Local Area Network 633
Connecting to the Network with NetworkManager 633
Connecting to a wireless network 635
Connecting to a wired network 636
Setting up a virtual private network connection 637
Understanding Local Area Networks 638
Planning, getting, and setting up LAN hardware 639
LAN topologies 639
LAN equipment 641
LAN equipment setup 643
Configuring TCP/IP for your LAN 643
Identifying other computers (hosts and DNS) 646
Adding Windows computers to your LAN 648
Setting Up a Wireless LAN 650
Understanding wireless networks 651
Choosing wireless hardware 652
Selecting wireless LAN cards 653
Selecting antennas 655
Getting wireless drivers 657
Installing wireless Linux software 660
Configuring the wireless LAN 660
Configuring the wireless interface 661
Wireless Security 665
Activating the wireless interfaces 666
Checking your wireless connection 666
Testing distances 666
Setting wireless extensions 666
Understanding Internet Protocol Addresses 668
IP address classes 669
Understanding netmasks 669
Classless Inter-Domain Routing 670
Getting IP addresses 671
Troubleshooting Your LAN 672
Did Linux find your Ethernet driver at boot time? 672
Can you reach another computer on the LAN? 673
Is your Ethernet connection up? 674
Troubleshooting a wireless LAN 675
Checking wireless settings 676
Checking TCP/IP 678
Adapting to poor reception 678
Use debugging tools 679
Watching LAN traffic with Wireshark 679
Starting Wireshark 679
Capturing Ethernet data 681
Interpreting captured Ethernet data 682
Using Wireshark Filters 683
Summary 684
Chapter 16: Connecting to the Internet 685
Understanding How the Internet Is Structured 685
Internet domains 688
Hostnames and IP addresses 689
Routing 690
Proxies 691
Using Dial-Up Connections to the Internet 691
Getting information 691
Setting up dial-up PPP 692
Creating a dial-up connection with the Network Configuration window 693
Launching your PPP connection 695
Launching your PPP connection on demand 696
Checking your PPP connection 697
Checking that your modem was detected 697
Checking that your PPP interface is working 698
Checking the default route 698
Checking that the name servers are set 699
Checking the chap-secrets or pap-secrets file 699
Looking at the ifcfg file 700
Running debugging 702
Connecting Your LAN to the Internet 703
Setting Up Linux as a Router 704
Configuring the Linux router 705
Selecting IP addresses 705
Enable forwarding and masquerading 705
Configuring network clients 707
Configuring a Virtual Private Network Connection 709
Understanding IPsec 709
Using IPsec protocols 710
Using IPsec in Fedora or RHEL 711
Configuring an OpenVPN Server 712
Decisions before configuring OpenVPN 712
Create a public key infrastructure 713
Create OpenVPN server configuration 715
Create OpenVPN client configuration 716
Setting Up Linux as a Proxy Server 717
Starting the squid daemon 718
Using a simple squid.conf file 720
Modifying the Squid configuration file 722
Configuring access control in squid.conf 722
Configuring caching in squid.conf 724
Configuring port numbers in squid.conf 725
Debugging Squid 726
Checking the squid.conf file 726
Checking Squid log files 726
Using the top command 727
Setting Up Proxy Clients 727
Configuring Firefox to use a proxy 728
Configuring other browsers to use a proxy 729
Summary 729
Chapter 17: Setting Up a Print Server 731
Common UNIX Printing Service 731
Setting Up Printers 732
Choosing a Printer 733
Using the Printer configuration window 733
Configuring local printers 734
Configuring remote printers 739
Using Web-based CUPS administration 742
Configuring the CUPS server (cupsd.conf) 745
Configuring CUPS printer options 746
Using Printing Commands 748
Using lpr to print 748
Listing status with lpc 749
Removing print jobs with lprm 749
Configuring Print Servers 750
Configuring a shared CUPS printer 750
Configuring a shared Samba printer 751
Understanding smb.conf for printing 751
Summary 752
Chapter 18: Setting Up a File Server 753
Goals of Setting Up a File Server 753
Setting Up an NFS File Server 754
Sharing NFS file systems 756
Using the NFS Server Configuration window 756
Configuring the /etc/exports file 759
Exporting the shared file systems 762
Starting the nfsd daemons 763
Using NFS file systems 763
Manually mounting an NFS file system 763
Automatically mounting an NFS file system 765
Using autofs to mount NFS file systems on demand 767
Unmounting NFS file systems 769
Other cool things to do with NFS 769
Setting Up a Samba File Server 770
Getting and installing Samba 771
Configuring a simple Samba server 772
Configuring Samba with SWAT 776
Turning on SWAT 776
Starting with SWAT 776
Creating global Samba settings in SWAT 777
Assigning Guest Accounts 780
Configuring shared directories with SWAT 783
Checking your Samba setup with SWAT 784
Working with Samba files and commands 784
Editing the smb.conf file 785
Adding Samba users 786
Starting the Samba service 787
Testing your Samba permissions 787
Checking the status of shared directories 787
Setting up Samba clients 788
Using Samba shared directories from Linux 788
Using Samba shared directories from Windows 790
Troubleshooting your Samba server 791
Basic networking in place? 791
Samba service running? 791
Firewall open? 792
User passwords working? 793
Summary 793
Chapter 19: Setting Up a Mail Server 795
Introducing SMTP and sendmail 796
Installing and Running sendmail 796
Other Mail Servers for Fedora or Red Hat Linux 797
Starting sendmail 798
Other programs 798
Logging performed by sendmail 799
Configuring sendmail 800
Getting a domain name 801
Configuring basic sendmail settings (sendmail.mc) 801
Defining outgoing mail access 805
Configuring virtual servers 807
Configuring virtual users 808
Adding user accounts 809
Starting sendmail and generating database files 810
Redirecting mail 811
The .forward file 811
The aliases file 811
Introducing Postfix 813
Stopping Spam with SpamAssassin 814
Using SpamAssassin 815
Setting up SpamAssassin on your mail server 815
Setting e-mail readers to filter spam 817
Getting Mail from the Server (POP3 or IMAPv4) 818
Accessing mailboxes in Linux 818
Configuring IMAPv4 and POP3 with dovecot 819
Getting Mail from Your Browser with SquirrelMail 820
Administering a Mailing List with mailman 821
Summary 825
Chapter 20: Setting Up an FTP Server 827
Understanding FTP Servers 828
Attributes of FTP servers 828
FTP user types 829
Using the Very Secure FTP Server 829
Quick-starting vsFTPd 830
Configuring vsFTPd 831
User accounts 831
Setting FTP access 832
Adding message files 835
Logging vsFTPd activities 835
Setting timeouts 836
Navigating a vsFTPd site 836
Setting up vsFTPd behind a firewall 836
Getting More Information about FTP Servers 837
Summary 837
Chapter 21: Setting Up a Web Server 839
Introduction to Web Servers 840
The Apache Web server 840
Other Web servers available for Fedora and RHEL 841
Quickstarting the Apache Web Server 842
Configuring the Apache Server 844
Configuring the Web server (httpd.conf) 845
Setting the global environment 846
Setting the number of server processes 848
Binding to specific addresses 851
Selecting modules in httpd.conf 851
Including module-specific configuration files 856
Choosing the server’s user and group 856
Setting the main server’s configuration 857
Identifying user directories 860
Setting default index files for directories 862
Defining indexing 869
Defining encoding and language 872
Choosing character sets 873
Adding MIME types and handlers 874
Defining actions and headers 874
Customizing error responses 875
Setting responses to browsers 877
Enabling proxy and caching services 877
Configuring virtual hosting 879
Configuring modules and related services (/etc/httpd/conf.d/*.conf) 881
Starting and Stopping the Server 882
Monitoring Server Activities 884
Displaying server information 885
Displaying server status 885
Further security of server-info and server-status 887
Logging errors 887
Logging hits 888
Analyzing Web-server traffic 888
Statistics Packages Available for Fedora and RHEL 890
Summary 890
Chapter 22: Setting Up an LDAP Address Book Server 891
Understanding LDAP 892
Defining information in schemas 893
Understanding OIDs 894
Structuring your LDAP directories 894
Setting Up the OpenLDAP Server 895
Installing OpenLDAP packages 895
Configuring the OpenLDAP server (slapd.conf) 895
Creating an Encrypted Password 897
Starting the OpenLDAP service 898
Setting Up the Address Book 898
More Ways to Configure LDAP 904
Accessing an LDAP Address Book from Thunderbird 905
Summary 907
Chapter 23: Setting Up a DHCP Boot Server 909
Using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol 909
Setting Up a DHCP Server 910
Opening your firewall and SELinux for DHCP 911
Configuring the /etc/dhcpd.conf file 911
Expanding the dhcpd.conf file 912
Adding options 914
Starting the DHCP server 918
Setting Up a DHCP Client 919
Summary 920
Chapter 24: Setting Up a MySQL Database Server 921
Finding MySQL Packages 922
Getting More MySQL Packages 923
Configuring the MySQL Server 924
Using mysql user/group accounts 924
Adding administrative users 925
Setting MySQL options 925
Creating the my.cnf configuration file 926
Choosing options 927
Checking options 929
Using sample my.cnf files 930
Starting the MySQL Server 931
Checking That MySQL Server Is Working 932
Working with MySQL Databases 933
Starting the mysql command 933
Creating a database with mysql 935
Adding data to a MySQL database table 936
Manually entering data 936
Loading data from a file 938
Understanding MySQL Tables 939
Displaying MySQL Databases 945
Displaying all or selected records 945
Displaying selected columns 946
Sorting data 947
Making Changes to Tables and Records 947
Altering the structure of MySQL tables 948
Updating and deleting MySQL records 948
Adding and Removing User Access 949
Adding users and granting access 949
Revoking access 950
Backing Up Databases 951
Checking and Fixing Databases 951
Summary 953
Chapter 25: Making Servers Public with DNS 955
Determining Goals for Your Server 956
Using a hosting service 956
Connecting a Public Server 957
Choosing an ISP 957
Checking Terms of Service 957
Getting static IP addresses 958
Choosing a connection speed 959
Getting a domain name 960
Checking domain name availability 960
Reserving a domain name 961
Configuring Your Public Server 962
Configuring networking 962
Configuring servers 963
Managing security 964
Opening your firewall 964
Enabling SELinux 965
Checking logs and system files 965
Keeping up with updates 966
Setting Up a Domain Name System Server 966
Understanding DNS 967
Understanding authoritative zones 968
Understanding DNS risks 968
Understanding BIND 969
DNS name server example 970
Quick-starting a DNS server 972
Identifying your DNS servers 973
Creating DNS configuration files (named.conf and var/named) 973
Starting the named (DNS) daemon 980
Checking that DNS is working 980
Getting More Information about BIND 982
Summary 982
Chapter 26: Integrating Fedora with Apple Macs 983
Looking Inside Mac OS X 984
Using Network Services from Mac OS X 985
Using AppleTalk (netatalk) from Mac OS X 986
Using AppleTalk from Mac OS 8 or OS 9 988
Using Mac, Windows, and Linux servers (Samba) 988
Sharing X applications 990
Configuring an AppleTalk Server in Linux 991
Before you start using netatalk 991
Setting up the netatalk server 992
Starting netatalk 993
Open firewall ports 995
Defining general AppleTalk server settings 995
Defining specific AppleTalk servers settings 996
Setting up users 996
Sharing netatalk volumes 996
Securing netatalk volumes 998
User-level security 998
Host-level security 999
File- and directory-level security 999
Printer Sharing 1003
Troubleshooting netatalk 1004
Accessing NFS Servers from the Mac 1005
Connecting to NFS from the Connect to Server window 1005
Connecting to NFS from the command line 1007
Installing Fedora on an Intel-based Mac 1008
Before installing Fedora on your Mac 1008
Installing Fedora 1009
Summary 1010
Appendix A: About the Media 1011
Fedora Source Code 1012
Appendix B: Running Network Services 1013
Checklist for Running Networking Services 1013
Networking Service Daemons 1015
The xinetd super-server 1015
The init.d start-up scripts 1016
Choosing Alternatives 1017
Referencing Network Services 1018
Web server 1018
File servers 1019
FTP servers 1019
Samba server 1019
Netatalk server 1020
Login servers 1020
E-mail servers 1021
News server 1021
Print servers 1022
Network administration servers 1022
Network Time Protocol server 1022
Portmap server 1022
SWAT 1022
Arpwatch server 1023
Simple Network Management Protocol server 1023
Information servers 1023
Network Information System servers 1024
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol server 1024
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol server 1024
Domain Name System server 1025
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol server 1025
Database services 1025
User services 1025
Remote execution servers 1025
Talk server 1026
Finger server 1026
Remote user identification 1027
Write-to-All server 1027
Security services 1027
System logging 1027
Virtual private network servers 1027
Proxy/caching server 1028
Appendix C: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Features 1033
What’s in RHEL 5? 1033
What’s New in RHEL 5.2? 1036
Choosing an RHEL System 1036
Getting RHEL Evaluation Subscriptions 1037
Hardware Compatibility and Commercial Software 1037
Training and Certification 1038
Documentation and Support 1039
Managing RHEL Systems 1039
Using Red Hat Network 1039
Using RHEL for high-performance computing clusters 1041
Using RHEL Global File System 1041
More Information on RHEL 1042
What’s in RHEL 5? 1033
What’s New in RHEL 5.2? 1036
Choosing an RHEL System 1036
Getting RHEL Evaluation Subscriptions 1037
Hardware Compatibility and Commercial Software 1037
Training and Certification 1038
Documentation and Support 1039
Managing RHEL Systems 1039
Using Red Hat Network 1039
Using RHEL for high-performance computing clusters 1041
Using RHEL Global File System 1041
More Information on RHEL 1042
Index 1043